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| Name | Modified | Size | Downloads / Week |
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| README.txt | 2013-01-29 | 1.4 kB | |
| hunspell-ar_Alecso.1.0.2012-12-25.zip | 2013-01-28 | 1.5 MB | |
| dict_ar_Alecso-1.0.2012-12-25.oxt | 2013-01-28 | 1.8 MB | |
| arabic_spellchecking_dictionary_Alecso.1.0.2012-12-25.xpi | 2013-01-28 | 1.5 MB | |
| Totals: 4 Items | 4.9 MB | 0 |
Open-Source Software for Developing an Arabic Spelling Checker Project Team Prof. Taghride Anbar, Scientific Coordinator Dr. Almoataz Billah Alsaid Eng. Taha Zerrouki Eng. Assem Chelli projet Coordinator at ALECSO Dr. Amin Kalak Project Objective This project aims at developing an open-source Arabic Spelling Checker to be available on the Web for helping users with correcting errors that might occur when writing Arabic texts. Software functionality - Detecting the written word state: correct or wrong - Suggesting the possible correct alternatives of a misspelled word - Allowing the user to choose the suitable correct alternative Software Desciption - This is a plug-in for the open-source speller Hunspell. Its target is to make spelling correction available for web browsers as well as for desktop free software. - This software deals with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA); It is based on a corpus composed of contemporary texts that belong to different domains: literature, science, media… - Based on a corpus composed of more than 7 million words, in addition to a “Named Entities” data base, the language coverage of this system is remarkably high. - In the correction state, a limited list of the nearest correct alternatives is suggested. - Because this is an open-source software, developers can introduce further modifications that improve the system’s functionality.